WHICKER'S WORLD

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SOUTH SEA ISLAND CORONATION
The Most Happy People
-they're just fantastic....
Flame dancers whirl, drums throb, guests feast on thirteen thousand suckling pigs, and in a festive mixture of Polynesia and Ruritania-a King is crowned. Once ruled by Queen Salote, Tonga-remote coral island set upon the Seas of the South Pacific-is tonight's world for Alan Whicker , observing the joys, pangs, and charms of a unique Victorian pageant-with South Sea Island overtones!
Produced and directed by PAUL WATSON
First shown on BBC-2

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Alan
Whicker
Directed By:
Paul
Watson

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